Loganair Increases Manchester Flights

Loganair has announced it will operate twice daily services between Isle of Man and Manchester in November and December.

This comes after easyJet cut its route down to four days a week for November and December.

The Scottish airline said the additional flights, operating on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, have been ‘added in response to easyJet’s sudden removal of services’.

Jonathan Hinkles, CEO, Loganair, said: ‘Consistency of connectivity is so important for the communities we serve, both for economic growth and tourism opportunities, particularly so for our island customers.

‘We often see budget airlines swoop onto routes where Loganair is established, offering low prices and enticing deals. But when passenger numbers are thinner in the winter months, these competitors are nowhere to be seen.

‘Loganair’s unique commitment to basing aircraft, crews and engineers in the Isle of Man offers year-round certainty of service. In comparison, easyJet suspended the route last summer, re-started and then cut back flights last winter, and it’s cut back flights again this winter.

‘We think it’s important that people who had booked with easyJet still have the option to travel as planned – and that’s why we’ve added the additional routes at similar times to the services that have been lost.’

easyJet

Regarding the decision to cut flights, an easyJet spokesperson told Gef: ‘Like all airlines, we continually review our schedule on an ongoing basis and make some changes to our flying programme in advance to ensure we are best serving the schedule our customers want to fly and following a recent review we have reduced the frequencies on our route between the Isle of Man and Manchester this winter, however we continue to operate the service four times a week alongside our daily service to Liverpool.

‘All impacted customers booked to travel have been notified and provided with options to rebook for free or a refund. We would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.’